Tag: engineering
Two Guys Turned This Indsutrial Robot Into A Tattoo Master
If you have ever had a tattoo done, you know that once you have chosen your tattoo, it's out of your hands. The quality of the tattoo is then in the hands of the tattoo artist, and that can be a scary experience. Over the years, there have been a few occasions when people have had their tattoo ruine ...
Solar Powered Wheelchair Design Complete With Smartphone Charger
It seems like there is a solar powered concept design for just about everything today, and that even includes wheelchairs. This wheelchair design has retractable solar panels and even a solar powered gadget charger. It was created by a team of students at the University of Virginia's School of Engin ...
KNEX Skeeball Machine Is An Epic Feat In Engineering
I just love all things technology. Whether it is the latest and greatest watch or some kind of epic advanced LEGO build, I am all over it. I might not always like what I find, but technology deserves to be checked out and thoroughly investigated. Who knows, it could have a feature that is perfectly ...
Roominate Dollhouse Lets Her Be A Little Engineer & Architect
When I was a kid, my sister put her foot through my dollhouse. It cracked down the middle. Needless to say, my soul still bears the scars of that moment. If I’d had an alarm for the dollhouse, perhaps connected to a few high intensity lasers, we’d all be sitting around telling a different story, wou ...
Wine Glass Machines Are Perfect For The Bored Drunk
Mankind has always been fascinated with technology. The more intricate and advanced it becomes, the more impressed we get it seems. I remember when I was a kid, and I saw those "ships inside a bottle" art pieces. Like everyone else, I was struck by confusion trying to figure out how it was done. One ...
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3 Steps To Become A Silicon Valley Millionaire [Humor]
Disclaimer: I've worked in Silicon Valley for 1 year and decided to give a humorous approach on getting rich.
There are two paths you can take to get started on your road to riches. You can either try to get hired by the next 'Facebookesque' startup, take a haircut in salary, and hope that your s ...
Apple On Borrowed Time Without Jobs
I have been following the works of the great Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for some time. It has been an interest of mine to follow and review historical material concerning the advent of the PC industry, and how it has evolved. One of my favorite documentaries on these visionaries is from industry writ ...
Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers: Star Wars Gets High Tech
In case you don't know what carbon fiber is, I will quickly explain it. Carbon fiber is a high tech, super strong material that has gotten very popular over the past few years. Many times it's used to make expensive gear designed for people with discriminating taste, but that's only because the mate ...
World’s Largest Working NES Controller
At first, I titled this article "World's Largest NES Controller." I had to go back and add the word "Working" because unlike many of the huge goofy NES controllers we've seen in the past, this one is actually functional! It's so big that the only way to control it is to stand on the buttons. Now the ...
The iPad Controlled Beer Keg: For Geeky Beer Lovers
This must be my lucky day! I love beer and I love iPads, so this is like my dream come true. Long story short, a team of extremely geeky Yelp engineers built this iPad-controlled kegbot.
This snazzy little contraption measures the beer flow, displays info about the beer, keeps track of who has ...
Don’t Try This At Home – Homemade Roller Coaster
I gain a lot of inspiration from my 8 year old son, Henry. His dream is to design and build roller coasters when he grows up. As I researched ways I could help him learn more about roller coasters now, I stumbled across the fascinating story of John Ivers.
John Ivers built a roller coaster in h ...
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